Book of Galatians Quotes

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

If everyone gives one thread, the poor man will have a shirt.

Merry Christmas to the poor of Salt Lake City.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

For you will have the poor with you always.

None of the lower orders need suffer for an hour, the Poor House is open.

Those who are more influential because they have greater share of goods and common services should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

When upmarket shops like Waitrose collect contributions for local food banks, they serve as a constant reminder to those of my constituents who are lucky enough not to have to worry about where their next meal will come from that those less fortunate than themselves are increasing in number, and suffering more than ever.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.